load spring application context from string

Question

Can somebody show me how to use Spring to load application context through xml string instead of file or classpath resource?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Use this:

String contextXML = ...;
Resource resource = new ByteArrayResource(contextXML.getBytes());
GenericXmlApplicationContext springContext = new GenericXmlApplicationContext();
springContext.load(resource);
Object myBean = springContext.getBean("myBean");
...

Reza